Irish is the 64th language pack added to Joomla!

December 1st, 2015

Irish joins 63 other officially released language packs for the Joomla CMS, making web publishing via a CMS accessible to more languages around the world.

The Joomla Translations Working Group has accredited Irish as an official language pack for Joomla. Now Irish joins 63 other accredited language packs for Joomla, and is scheduled for inclusion in the upcoming 3.5 release of the popular CMS.

The aim of the Joomla Irish Language Localisation Project is to provide an up-to-date translation of the core Joomla content management system (CMS) into Irish. Additionally, some commonly used optional extensions may be translated also. This is a significant project, and requires tens of thousand words to be translated for the core Joomla CMS alone.

The Irish language pack can be included in Joomla at install time from the Joomla back end (Extensions: Install Languages) starting in Joomla 3.5.0. It will also be available from the translations page http://community.joomla.org/translations/joomla-3-translations.html
and pre-releases (not accredited) are available for older Joomla versions
https://github.com/joomla-irish/language_pack/releases

Joomla language packs affect standardized buttons, inputs, messages, etc. Language packs can still be overridden with the standard Joomla language overrides, so it is easy to substitute your own labels and messages for buttons and dialogs.

Joomla can be used to create a single language website (e.g. Irish only, or English only), or a multilingual website (English, Irish, French, Spanish, etc). Each language requires the core Joomla CMS to be translated into that language, so that the correct text is displayed as required. For example, when filling out a contact form: ‘You must enter a subject’ becomes ‘Ní mór duit ábhar a chur isteach’. With the Joomla Irish Translation Pack installed, these translated text snippets are immediately available in a new website, even before any user content is added.

The new language pack represents months of work by a dedicated team of many Joomla contributors, including Kevin Scannell (New Translation Team Coordinator), Eoin Ó Murchú and Síne Nic an Ailí. Kevin and Eoin have previously collaborated on several important Irish localisation projects, including the translations of Gmail and Twitter into Irish.

The full list of contributors to the Irish Language Pack:

Kevin Scannell

Eoin Ó Murchú

Síne Nic an Ailí

Clíodhna Ní Mhurchú

Andrew McCarthy

Hervé Boinnard

John Duffy

Steve Jacobs

Hervé Boinnard facilitates communication with the Joomla project in general (the translators are new to Joomla community), and managed the files and history of the previous releases, since he joined the team in 2009.

Irish (Gaeilge), is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. It is spoken as a first language by a small minority, and as a second language by a larger group. Irish enjoys constitutional status as the national language of the Republic of Ireland, is an officially recognised language in Northern Ireland, and is also among the official languages of the European Union.

One can find all the accredited language packs on this page: http://community.joomla.org/translations.html
Earlier (not accredited) Joomla Language Packs for Irish can be found here:
https://github.com/joomla-irish/language_pack/